after fake sexually explicit images of the star proliferated on social media

Searches for Swift's name yielded an error message

[Karine Jean-Pierre , White House Press Secretary]

"We are alarmed by the reports of the circulation of images that you just laid out, a false images to be more exact, and it is alarming. So while social media companies make their own independent decisions about content management, we believe they have an important role to play in enforcing, enforcing their own rules to prevent the spread of misinformation and non-consensual, intimate imagery of real people."

X, which is owned by Elon Musk, has come under fire for its content moderation rules

with many companies pausing advertising on the platform after Musk acquired it in 2022